snapshot: also consider the snapshot chain of one unrelated revision To maximize the chance of good delta chain reuse, we inject an unrelated delta chain into our search. To do so, we search for the highest revision unrelated to the parents of the current revision and use its snapshot chain too. Adding this extra snapshot into the mix can have a performance impact. We'll deal with performance impact in a later series.

snapshot: extract parent chain computation The final step of this series is to include chain related to "prev" in the search. Before adding that code we do some simple code movement to clarify the next diff.

snapshot: refine candidate snapshot base upward Once we found a suitable snapshot base it is useful to check if it has a "children" snapshot that would provide a better diff. This is useful when base not directly related to stored revision are picked. In those case, we "jumped" to this new chain at an arbitrary point, checking if a higher point is more appropriate will help to provide better results and increase snapshot reuse.

snapshot: try to refine new snapshot base down the chain There are cases where doing a diff against a snapshot's parent will be shorter than against the snapshot itself. Reusing snapshot not directly related to the revision we are trying to store increase this odd. So once we found a possible candidate, we check the snapshots lower in the chain. This will involve extra processing, but this extra processing will only happen when we are doing building a snapshot, a rare situation.

snapshot: make sure we'll never refine delta base from a reused source The point of reusing delta from the source is to avoid doing computation when applying a bundle. Refining such delta would go against that spirit. We do not have refining logic in place yet. This code needed to be moved out of the way before we could start adding such logic.

snapshot: turn _refinedgroups into a coroutine We are now almost ready to start adding refining logic.

snapshot: also use None as a stop value for `_refinegroup` This is yet another small step toward turning `_refinegroups` into a co-routine.

snapshot: add refining logic at the findeltainfo level Once we found a delta, we want to have the candidates logic challenge it, searching for a better candidate. The logic at the lower level is still missing. We'll introduce it later. Adding small changes in individual commits make it simpler to explain the code change. This is another small step toward turning `_refinegroups` into a co-routine.